The Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) 1999 - present

Catalogue No. 71-584-MIE

The WES consists of two components: a workplace survey and a survey of employees within these same workplaces. The result is a rich new source of linked information on workplaces and their employees.

Thanks to earlier surveys, researchers have a good understanding of worker outcomes regarding wages, wage inequality, job stability, and training. What is missing on the worker side is the ability to link these changes to events taking place in the workplace. Such a connection is necessary if we hope to understand the association between labour market changes and pressures stemming from global competition, technological change and the drive to improve human capital. One primary goal of WES is to establish a link between the events occurring in the workplace and the outcomes for workers.

The second goal of the survey is to develop a better understanding of what is indeed occurring in companies in an era of substantial change. The advantage of the linked survey is depicted in the following figure which displays the main content blocks of the two surveys.

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